 "The Saturday Star (South Africa)")
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let's hear it for change; The Grahamstown Festival gets a shake-up, writes Humphrey Tyler.(Entertainment)
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There has been a considerable organisational shake-up at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown and it looks as if it's paying off. The programme for this year has been published - the festival runs from July 2-11 - and it's a peach.
The Grahamstown Festival began as a sort of rose show plus have-a-cup-of-tea 35 years ago and simply grew.
Now it is huge. In fact, it's not one festival at all, but three or four or more all at the same time. There's drama and dance, a jazz festival, writers' workshops, sessions where eggheads can mutter about changing the ...
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French grands motets and their use at the Chapelle Royale from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
Magazine article from: Musical Times
; ...carved pillars, painted vaults, and coloured marble tiling. This bold compromise was the work of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. Hardouin-Mansart's brother-in-law, Robert de Cotte, oversaw the interior decoration. It is strikingly white...
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Gilt bronze in French decorative arts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.(Decorative Arts of the Kings )
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...part of the sumptuous collections of his godfather Jules, Cardinal Mazarin (1602-1661), the next year...last recently built near Versailles to the designs of Jules Hardouin Mansart (1646-1708). Many branches of the decorative arts...
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Choice art books of 1997.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Town & Country
; ...brings his well-honed storytelling techniques to Paris Deluxe: Place Vendome (Rizzoli; $65). Designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart in the late 17th century, the Place Vendome has hosted fashion greatsWorth, Schiaparelli and Coco Chanel...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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An ode to opulence Treasure-trove of paintings, sculptures, objects at DAM just a fraction of the Louvre's 400,000-piece collection.(Spotlight)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...sections are installed. The entry area to the space holds one work: Jean-Louis Lemoyne's 1703 marble bust of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the architect of Versailles (remembered today by his design for a roof now called mansard). Then the gallery...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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This is such a cracking location...Tom Hanks just loved it here; property on Sunday.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ...expense spared in 1698 for the Comte d'Aufflay, Louis XIV's ambassador to Venice. He employed the architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart and the garden designer Andre Le Notre, who were working on Versailles at the same time. Indeed, th
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Review: House & Home: Where prices are still Seine Lured by elegant apartments, a rising market and the promise of a sound investment, British house-hunters are flocking to the French capital. Caroline McGhie on how and where to buy in Paris
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...Vendome, for example, was hailed as one of the finest examples of 18th-century elegance. It was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart as a group of embassies and academies into which bankers promptly moved and made their homes. Chopin died there...
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Marie Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...the king gave it to Marie Adelaide de Savoy (1685-1713), duchesse de Bourgogne, in 1698 he commissioned Jules Hardouin-Mansart (1646-1708) to build a second, more luxurious but smaller dairy near the first one specifically for the...
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Hardcovers in Brief
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...classical facades with Corinthian columns -- during the reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, whose architect Jules Hardouin-Mansart supervised the design. By the 20th century the Place Vendome had become identified with Parisian high society...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...poet, buried 1607; Matteo Ricci, Jesuit missionary in China, 1610; Otto von Guericke, physicist, 1686; Jules Hardouin-Mansart, architect, 1708; Catharine Cockburn, playwright and author, 1749; William Pitt, First Earl of Chatham...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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WHO'S MOVING homes gossip.
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England)
; ...eventually reveals the secret of the code. This 18-bedroom pile, set in 200 acres near Paris, was designed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Andre Le Notre at the same time as they created Versailles for Louis XIV. The present owner, Olivia Hsu...
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